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NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a new Family and Medical Leave Act that will provide the nation’s most comprehensive paid family leave program to New York employees but may present serious challenges for employers.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Legal Newsline) - The leader of Advance Arkansas Institute and a former lawmaker is ready to start seeking signatures after Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge certified a name and ballot title for a proposed measure.

SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) - A representative of the car rental company RelayRides Inc. says that the company is confident it will be able to resolve the class action lawsuit filed against it in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Concern still swirls around a rule change proposed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in September. The proposed regulation would omit a sentence, effectively releasing manufacturers from the obligation to provide labeling for uses not sanctioned by the manufacturer.

WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - A recent speech given by Richard Cordray, the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, reinforced speculation that the CFPB will soon release new rules restricting the use of arbitration provisions in consumer agreements.

WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) — J.G. Wentworth will have to face a civil investigation demand after the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau denied the company's petition to set it aside.

BOSTON (Legal Newsline) - Kohl’s won’t have to defend itself against a class action lawsuit that alleges it advertises false sale prices, as the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts recently dismissed the case.

The plaintiff in the case, Fredrick William Gullen, filed the complaint alleging violations of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act. Gullen is not a Facebook user, but he alleged that his image was uploaded to the site and that his biometric identifiers and biometric information was collected, stored and used by Facebook without his consent.

The Federal Trade Commission is alleging in a federal lawsuit that advertisements by DeVry cited inaccurate graduate employment and earnings statistics. John Culhane, of Ballard Spahr in Philadelphia, said the signs point to some pushback from the company.

The Washington Legal Foundation recently filed a friend-of-the-court brief to support the overturning of a $124 million South Carolina Supreme Court decision regarding the information drug manufacturers share with doctors about the potential side effects of drugs.

The Washington Supreme Court has issued a ruling that creates a wider scope for the application of the state's Consumer Protection Act, according to a law professor and former assistant attorney general.